Retrovirus Lab: Abash't

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

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Murder By Death. Dante's. Portland, Oregon. August 11, 2012.

Band photography is something I've always wanted to get into a bit more, but haven't for various reasons over the years.

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, working with film, the lighting issues were just too annoying to deal with. However, these days, digital cameras are just much more light sensitive, and then there is the ability to vary ISO per shot, not per role, so that helps a lot. Also, being able to review the shots on the spot is tremendously helpful in these situations, because I can keep firing away until I know I've captured what I've been aiming for.

This last year, when I started taking cameras around with me pretty much everywhere, it was only natural to start taking some shots at shows, and I have been happy with the results.

I really like playing with the stage lighting, good performers do interesting things, and I can get some of the good, blurry but nice weird effects that I like, giving me a lot to play with in editing.

This last year, time and budget kept me from making it to many shows. Hopefully 2013 will give me plenty of new opportunities to continue developing my technique with live band photography and to build up a more solid portfolio in this area.

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Looking for photographers to shoot dates on the tour. Submit your best live photo for the chance to win a photo pass…

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Fun show. I was able to take the boys with me, the big one’s second show ever, the little one’s first, and they both had a great time. I don’t get to do that very often, so it was a very special night for me.

I enjoyed the bands, of course. They are friends of mine, so I am a bit biased, but I do really like them, so that makes it much easier. I hate being in the situation where I do not like the bands my friends are in, and thankfully that is not the case with these two.

Of course, considering that both bands share the same rhythm section, it would be surprising if I didn’t like both of them.

I am not going to waste a lot of words here. Just some music and some pictures.

Both these groups are pretty new, so they don’t have a lot of music available on line yet. I know Abash’t is less than a year old, and I am not sure how long Disenchanter has been around, but about the same, I think.

Anyway, I am sure that both bands have some better quality demo material in the works, below I’ve posted what I was currently able to find on-line.